Check In With the Velociraptor at the World’s First Robot Hotel
Lewis-Kraus visits a hotel in Japan where service is provided by robots and considers the necessity of human interaction.
The Magic of Archives: A Reading List
I’m thrilled to present this week’s Reading List in collaboration with Samantha Abrams, an archivist and great friend. I’d planned to curate something about the importance and changing role of archiving—an oft-misunderstood or overlooked science—but I didn’t have enough in my longform arsenal. Cue Sam.
The Past Still Grips Rodney King
A quarter century has passed since the infamous beating of Rodney King. In the months before King’s death, he was profiled by Kurt Streeter, who portrays a man still very much haunted by the past.
Who is Behind One of the Biggest Scams in History?
The first installment in a five-part investigative series from CNN Money about one of the world’s longest-running cons. Over the past two decades, vulnerable people have been duped out of hundreds of millions of dollars by a French psychic named Maria Duval. Part two of the series is also online, and the third installment will be available on Thursday.
The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst
How a former C.I.A. operative worked to expose a former Fox News analyst who claimed he also worked for the intelligence service.
No One Separates the Rich and Famous Better than Laura Wasser
She charges $850 an hour, often gets followed by TMZ, and has handled the separations of everyone from Britney Spears to Stevie Wonder.
A Schoolboy Wrongly Accused
The account of a Ugandan teen wrongly accused of two murders, and the lawyer who cleared his name.
To Consider Myself a Human Being
How China remembers the Cultural Revolution.
Sin Will Find You Out
The author retraces her birth mother’s footsteps through a bygone Manhattan.
Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive
There have long been rumors that Bob Dylan had stashed away an extensive archive, but even die-hard Dylanologists couldn’t have dreamed up anything like the 6,000-piece private trove of his work recently acquired by a group of institutions in Oklahoma. The archives hold untold insight into the songwriter’s work, but George B. Kaiser—the driving force behind the acquisition—hopes they have the power to do something much bigger: make Tulsa cool.
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